New Apple Products

Apple admitted the first Apple TV didn’t quite work out — so the new model can access iTunes directly — and streams movies from the new rental store in both DVD quality and HD with 5.1 surround. It’s $299, but they’re offering it for $229 starting today.

The new Apple TV will feature library titles at $2.99 and $3.99 — a dollar more for HD, $3.99 and $4.99 — with over 100 titles available today. The YouTube selection has also been expanded to 50M videos, there’s now Flickr support.

The MacBook air “is the world’s thinnest notebook”. It has a 13.3-inch widescreen display, with LED backlighting, 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo standard, 2GB memory standard, 80GB hard drive standard (64GB SSD optional). It also has a built-in iSight camera, and a full-sized keyboard, with a trackpad and multi-touch gesture support on the trackpad. It is so thin, it even fits inside a vanilla envelope. Steve demonstrates.

Other features: flip-down door that has USB 2, microDVI port, and a headphone jack. The other side has a MagSafe connector. It’s got 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. No optical drive, but you can buy an external, $99 USB-powered SuperDrive for the MacBook Air.